watching the local news. and they realized there was a tornado in the area. dave and his wife decided to go to the bathroom. they thought that might be the best place to protect themselves. this is dave koenig. explain why you went in here. we ve got 26 windows in the atrium. i was afraid the glass was going to explode, and it did. we went from the bedroom straight to the bathroom, shut the door, got on the floor. so you re in there, and the tornado comes through pretty much right after you got in there. s ahe with shut the door, the house started shaking. it was a whistling sound. they say a train. it was more like a tank. it was rumbling. the house was shaking. it was bouncing. in 30 second, sheer quietness, nothing. we opened the door and came out. the living room furniture was in the hall.
we re going to talk to him about what he did next. you re in there with your wife? correct. we were watching the news, the weather. siren went offment the lights went out. she said, let s go downstairs. i said, we d better hit this bathroom here. we went in there and got on the floor. we heard whistling sound. the air was coming out underneath the door, being sucked out of the house, then the house just broke loose. it was rattling, shaking, jumping, bouncing. and then in 30 seconds it was over. reporter: so let s be clear here. your wife wanted you to go to the basement. you said, let s go to the bathroom. bathroom. reporter: this is the bathroom right here. why did you decide on the bathroom? small room, lots of 2 by 4s, walls, we were safe. it s the only room in the house that didn t get tore up. reporter: and the ceiling is coming down. the side of the house is kind of exposed. tell me what happened. we re trying to get out of here. i mean, we re jumping over furnitur
whistling sound there s always a screen or something that cuts across the wind and makes a noise. you have heard that before, i m guessing you are ready for it, right? yeah, we are ready for it, that s for sure. quite a few of us did not evacuate the island. we decided to wait it out. it appears as though the storm going to be as bad as we prepared for. shepard: that s the way you want it. better to overprepare than underprepare for sure. it is not fun to prepare. did you have to board up and all that sort of thing? yeah, we boarded up windows and picked up anything that might get blown around. the island looks tide before a hurricane than any other time it is a lot of work. in this case we really went overboard considering what was coming at us, looked like a category 4 now downgraded to a
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